Intro to App Building with Salesforce

Slides and materials are hosted at http://girldevelopit.github.io/gdi-salesforce.

About this course

Class is 6 hours of content + 45 minutes lunch and a 10 min afternoon break.

Course description

Interested in an in-demand career with salaries up to six-figures? The job market for Salesforce professionals is growing, with over 100,000 job openings for the Salesforce skills created last year*. In this class, you'll get a crash course in building simple employee-facing business apps that run on both a web browser and a mobile device - without writing any code!

Whether you’re familiar with Salesforce from your work experience or are just looking for a career in a hot field, join us to learn about app-building on Salesforce.

*Report obtained under license from Burning Glass Technologies. Data from June 2014-June 2015.

Topics covered:

• What is Salesforce and what are the career opportunities for Salesforce Admins and Developers?

• Crash course in app-building concepts including data modeling, user interfaces, business logic, reports, dashboards, and mobile.

• Hands-on and guided learning to build a sample app in just one day.

• An introduction to Trailhead, a fun online learning platform for Salesforce.

• Resources for connecting with the Salesforce community.

The tools for learning to develop with Salesforce are free:

• Developer Edition account

• Salesforce1 Mobile App (AppStore and Google Play)

• Trailhead, the fun free way to learn Salesforce

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Prerequisites:

Students should be fairly familiar with using internet and mobile applications and Googling for answers to all of life’s questions. You do not need any prior Salesforce experience and do not need a Salesforce license.

Tech requirements:

Please bring a laptop, not an iPad/tablet. The visual development tools only run on modern browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer 9 or later).

For Instructors:

This is a suggested timeline to help you stay on track.

Resources

Traliblazers video

"Salesforce1 Simulator"

Class prep:

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Open browser tabs with:

• Your Own Org with the Battle Station app complete
• Mobile view of your org using Salesforce1 Simulator Chrome extension
• Inspirational Video: Trailblazers
• Trailhead

NEW Feb 2017: Lightning Experience is on by default in new DE and Trailhead Playground orgs; Battle Station project requires Lightning Experience on